Freedom - Pharrell Williams

The Experience:Mind, use your power. Spirit, use your wings. Freedom! Pharrell Williams sings an anthem to the ideal of our era... an anthem that unintentionally embodies the huge risks we face when freedom, and freedom alone, is king...

Music video: Pharrell Williams offers a visually striking backdrop for his new single Freedom, as he sings the song from malls, abandoned buildings, and in the midst of oppressed crowds - workers pounding sand, Lego figures in Tianmen Square, women sewing in a sweat shop. But he also mixes in two other types of freedom. People do the impossible and cool - one guy rides motorcycles standing on the seat - but also the transgressive - two girls strip naked in the street. For Williams, freedom seems to be a blanket permission to do anything - bad or good.The Meaning of Freedom: Pharrell Williams offers a new paradigm of creation. Everything is made to be free, from the sun to man himself. Freedom is the fire - man's red flower - that burns everywhere. But if freedom is the heart of everything, what's so special about it? And can you have freedom without responsibility? Freedom is an incredible accomplishment, but without good and bad, without something more than a mysterious "electric one" - God? - who simply turns us loose, it's also incredibly empty.Ask yourself: Do we really want everyone to be absolutely free to do whatever they want? No matter what that is?

LYRICS:

Hold on to meDon't let me goWho cares what they see?Who cares what they know?Your first name is FreeLast name is DomWe choose to believeIn where we're fromMan's red flowerIt's in every living thingMind, use your powerSpirit, use your wingsFreedom!Freedom!Freedom!FreedomFreedomFreedomHold on to meDon't let me goCheetahs need to eatRun, antelopeYour first name is KingLast name is DomCause you still believeIn everyoneWhen a baby first breathesWhen night sees sunriseWhen the whale hunts the seaWhen man recognizesFreedom!Freedom!Freedom!FreedomFreedomBreathe inWe are from heatThe electric oneDoes it shock you to seeHe left us the sun?Atoms in the airOrganisms in the seaThe sun and, yes, manAre made of the same thingsFreedom!Freedom!Freedom!FreedomFreedomFreedomFreedomFreedom

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